Hello. We’re back. Christmas wasn’t as earth-shattering as it could have been as regards gaming stories: not as big as 2008, anyway. But, needless to say, the news refused to sleep. Hit the link for everything you missed.

During the BMO Capital Markets conference in New York, Microsoft’s COO Dennis Durkin revealed that Halo 3: ODST has sold over 3 million copies since being releases on September 22. Durkin did not specify during the conference if these figures were worldwide or not, but the title moved over 1.5 million copies during its first […]

Dragon Quest IX was the bestselling videogame across Japan, the US and UK in the third quarter, according to joint data from NPD, GfK Chart-Track and Enterbrain. And yes: it was only released in Japan. Here’s the top five: Dragon Quest IX (Square Enix) – 3,925,000 Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) – 3,014,000 Madden NFL 10 […]

Microsoft’s post-NPD statement dropped some pretty staggering stats on Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, confirming that over 5 million unique players have racked up playtime with the Halo 3: ODST’s single-player campaign or Halo 3 and the multiplayer maps showcased on the game’s second disc, totaling over 116 million hours of play. ODST was […]

Halo 3: ODST has outright won the software front in the September NPDs, selling over 1.5 million units in the month. Wii Sports Resort (442k) and Madden NFL 10 for the Xbox 360 (289k) rounded off the top three in the software charts. Beatles: Rock Band for the 360 beat Guitar Hero 5 for the […]

Microsoft’s released a Halo Waypoint video – after the break – detailing the point behind the upcoming Halo fan’s Live home. There’s two bits to it, basically: “Intel” and “Career”. Intel’s just tons of stuff from the Halo universe in general, including fiction, upcoming anime, and so on. The Career bit tracks your accomplishments across […]

According to a report over on USA Today, Halo 3: ODST has moved 2.5 million units in the past two weeks, with sales reaching $27 million. Earlier today, it was reported that games, comics, videos, books and action figures are planned for the next six years, which will add more money to the Halo franchise […]

FIFA 10 has unsurprisingly entered the UK charts at No. 1, taking out Halo 3: ODST which lands at number three. The top three is topped off with Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box at number two. The launch of the most recent FIFA is now also the second biggest launch in the UK, only behind […]

Microsoft’s said it’s currently investigating thin reports of disc-read errors related to Halo 3: ODST. “We are aware of a very small number of people who are reporting they can’t play the game,” the platform holder told Eurogamer. “We are looking into it, but at this point it doesn’t appear to be a widespread issue.” […]

Bungie writer Joseph Staten has said to OXM (via CVG) that Halo 3: ODST has connections to the upcoming Halo: Reach. “The Halo Universe has always had these interconnections but when we made ODST we had the luxury of knowing the Halo game we were going to make next. So it made a lot of […]

Hello. We’re back. Christmas wasn’t as earth-shattering as it could have been as regards gaming stories: not as big as 2008, anyway. But, needless to say, the news refused to sleep. Hit the link for everything you missed.

During the BMO Capital Markets conference in New York, Microsoft’s COO Dennis Durkin revealed that Halo 3: ODST has sold over 3 million copies since being releases on September 22. Durkin did not specify during the conference if these figures were worldwide or not, but the title moved over 1.5 million copies during its first […]

Dragon Quest IX was the bestselling videogame across Japan, the US and UK in the third quarter, according to joint data from NPD, GfK Chart-Track and Enterbrain. And yes: it was only released in Japan. Here’s the top five: Dragon Quest IX (Square Enix) – 3,925,000 Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) – 3,014,000 Madden NFL 10 […]

Microsoft’s post-NPD statement dropped some pretty staggering stats on Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, confirming that over 5 million unique players have racked up playtime with the Halo 3: ODST’s single-player campaign or Halo 3 and the multiplayer maps showcased on the game’s second disc, totaling over 116 million hours of play. ODST was […]

Halo 3: ODST has outright won the software front in the September NPDs, selling over 1.5 million units in the month. Wii Sports Resort (442k) and Madden NFL 10 for the Xbox 360 (289k) rounded off the top three in the software charts. Beatles: Rock Band for the 360 beat Guitar Hero 5 for the […]

Microsoft’s released a Halo Waypoint video – after the break – detailing the point behind the upcoming Halo fan’s Live home. There’s two bits to it, basically: “Intel” and “Career”. Intel’s just tons of stuff from the Halo universe in general, including fiction, upcoming anime, and so on. The Career bit tracks your accomplishments across […]

According to a report over on USA Today, Halo 3: ODST has moved 2.5 million units in the past two weeks, with sales reaching $27 million. Earlier today, it was reported that games, comics, videos, books and action figures are planned for the next six years, which will add more money to the Halo franchise […]

FIFA 10 has unsurprisingly entered the UK charts at No. 1, taking out Halo 3: ODST which lands at number three. The top three is topped off with Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box at number two. The launch of the most recent FIFA is now also the second biggest launch in the UK, only behind […]

Microsoft’s said it’s currently investigating thin reports of disc-read errors related to Halo 3: ODST. “We are aware of a very small number of people who are reporting they can’t play the game,” the platform holder told Eurogamer. “We are looking into it, but at this point it doesn’t appear to be a widespread issue.” […]

Bungie writer Joseph Staten has said to OXM (via CVG) that Halo 3: ODST has connections to the upcoming Halo: Reach. “The Halo Universe has always had these interconnections but when we made ODST we had the luxury of knowing the Halo game we were going to make next. So it made a lot of […]

Over on Bungie.net quite a few more Halo 3: ODST players are reporting that they are having issues with disc read errors occurring during the game, basically making it unplayable. So far, these errors seem to only occur during the ODST campaign and Firefight mode with the multiplayer disc being unaffected. Some reports claim that […]

Think the Halo franchise finally jumped the shark with ODST? Think again. Straight from Bungie comes word that Halo 3: ODST has roped in nearly one million players in a single day. As of our last look at Bungie’s page, the exact number of players sits at 958,137. These ODST afficianados have logged a total […]

Halo 3: ODST users were polled by OTX regarding what title they’ll be purchasing next. According to the results of the poll, users plan to purchase three games within the next few months, and Modern Warfare 2, Assassins Creed 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 were the most desired titles. Most of the top 20 […]

Bethesda’s production director, Ashley Cheng, has defended Halo 3: ODST’s campaign length on his blog, stating that Microsoft’s marketing machine is almost solely to blame for the consumer backlash and mixed reviews. “Microsoft and/or Bungie totally bungled the marketing on this. First saying it was a standalone expansion pack, then coming out and saying wait, […]

The embargo on Halo 3: ODST has lifted! We’ve scoured the Internet and found every* review – every opinion, every ounce of knowledge – of the game and posted them all here. Just for you! Have a look-see! Kotaku – No score (More blue paragraphs than red, though. That’s good, right?) Joystiq – No score […]

Xbox Europe entertainment boss Steve McGill’s told MCV that he expects Halo 3: ODST’s Reach beta promotion to be more successful than the Halo 3 multiplayer beta entry given away with Crackdown. “The only way to access this beta will be through the Halo 3: ODST disc, so we feel there’s another extremely compelling reason […]

Microsoft has announced that a Halo 3: ODST hardware bundle will be made available in all PAL territories. Inside the large Halo decorated box, consumers will find a 120Gb Xbox 360 Elite, controller, a copy of Halo 3: ODST, a copy of Halo 3 and a key to the Halo: Reach beta. It’s due later […]

A vidoc detailing “the vision” behind Halo 3: ODST is now up on Live, says Mr Major. Blurb: A Covenant warship dominates the sky over New Mombasa. The evacuated city burns below. You are an ODST, one of the few soldiers ready and willing to drop in and put up a fight. But before you […]

VG247 has learnt that the embargo for Halo 3: ODST reviews will be lifted from this weekend. The embargo for all British journalists is 5.00 am BST on Sunday, September 20, while east coast American journalists can post their reviews from midnight EST. Journalists from the west coast put their reviews live from 9pm PST […]

XboxInsider has managed to obtain what is the “Legendary” ending of Halo 3: ODST. We haven’t watched it ourselves for obvious reasons, of course. It’s after the jump for you to spoil your eyes over. *WARNING*: Video is a MASSIVE spoiler, so watch at your own risk. Otherwise, if you want to stay clean before […]